How has work changed since the rise of COVID-19? With so many teams forced to work from home, we analyzed the difference in behavior for ERP usage and found a few fascinating ways you can use Acumatica Cloud ERP for your business.

Organize, Communicate and Measure are 3 tips we want to give away in this article for Acumatica users.
Acumatica Cloud ERP enables you to work from anywhere, any device and any time. A convenient application is being tested during this pandemic crisis, 100% of customers are working remotely and their workforce is able to access critical ERP applications, transact and conduct business online.

In this article we will show you how to utilize Acumatica’s remote workforce to be able to organize and conduct meetings, communicate and measure the work completed, activities, tasks, and checking productivity of each employees or users.

Organize

First thing is to organize, get all the roles and responsibilities figured out during the remote working, things that you can do and you can’t and find alternative ways such as printing and mailing, configure a printer to local home printer if required using Acumatica Print DeviceHub application.

Create tasks, virtual appointments and reminders for being productive, allows you to stay on track and you can record time spent on each of these tasks.

Create a work group in Acumatica and assign all your employees or users to specific work group.

Communicate

Setup weekly tasks for your team, you can create work groups and assign certain users per work group to optimize flow of information such as Sales group, Web Leads, Accounting, Purchasing etc.

Given the lack of visibility in a remote environment, ERP customers can improve your monitoring techniques and relationships with employees.
Use simple surveys to check the pulse of employees, Acumatica Surveys a new plugin now available for 2019 R2 you can check the COVID-19 affected employees or family members health and safety, or employee benefits survey or track output to collect data and find areas of recognition.

Measure

How do you measure productivity of employees working remotely or from home office?

How do you measure productivity of employees working remotely or from home office?
How to keep track of their time spent on the ERP system?
Can we dig bit deeper into their work activity and find out their usage of time and activities they might have perform in the system.

Luckily Acumatica provides your the auditing capabilities that allows managers to peak into work activity by specific users in the system.

a) Setup a audit history to capture all changes through out the system, however this would be searching for a needle in haystack approach

b) Access logged in users report and seeing which user was active – this would be easier approach however we may need bit more data

With integrated ERP your business can run more efficient and productive inside office and remote, in such unprecedented times. Let us help solve your business problems with Acumatica Cloud ERP software, truly a cloud application allowing to access anywhere, any time and on any device for your entire organization, and it’s COVID-19 resistance.